Posted on 12/29/2023 8:33:13 AM PST by MeganC
When it comes to the topic of sexual harassment the liberal left will shout at the top of their lungs that the only thing that matters is the perception of the person who says the harassment took place.
A person's perception is then a valid concept both in fact and in law for the liberal left.
Which is why I say that I do not have any "personal pronouns" because pronouns are how other people refer to me based upon their perfectly legitimate perceptions. In general everyone I know refers to me with she/her pronouns.
But why?
It isn't because I put those pronouns on my every email, my every post on the internet, I don't use them with my signature, in fact I've never not once ever told someone how to refer to me.
They call me a woman and they call me she/her because that's their perception of me. And isn't their perception valid both in fact and in law? Who am I to dictate how someone else sees me and interprets what they see?
And what they see and how they interpret what they see is how they select their pronouns for referring to me.
Now if someone referred to me as he/him then they're not wrong.
That's right. I utterly refuse to accuse anyone of the fashionable crime of 'misgendering' me.
Because if someone perceives me as a man then that's not their problem, it's mine. If I don't want to be perceived as a man then I should take more care that people see me as a woman.
Likewise, if some guy who used to win in the Olympics puts on a dress, has breast implants, and is still built like a male athlete people might not perceive him as a woman. Wise people never will.
Wise people will not lie to themselves and call a man a woman when he is clearly no such thing. They will not call a woman a man when she cuts off her boobs, takes hormones to grow a beard, and ends up looking like Rachel Maddow. That's just an ugly woman with a beard.
This is my point is to refuse the lie that someone else gets to dictate what you see and how you interpret what you see. They are trying to dictate what you think.
Take back your pronouns for 2024. They're all YOUR pronouns and YOU own them!
I would not respond to anyone who feels the need to indicate “their” pronouns to me, verbally or in print. It’s silly. I’m old. I don’t have time for this.
Amen to that!
I am too old to remember names let alone pronouns.
Well said.
LOL...me too. Especially if you have known someone for YEARS with one name and set of pronouns and then they change them on you.
The only haters are those who hate who or what they are enough to try to change into something else.
I have the right to ignore you, totally, and unless you present yourself as a threat to me, I will never communicate with you. However, if you feel like it is most important for you to force yourself on me, I will eliminate that threat in whatever manner is necessary. Go seek psychiatric help for your obsession to be noticed. You are not welcome here.
I don’t have to buy a ticket to your circus.
It’s all about ‘deconstructing’ (destroyed) the status quo to make way for a bright communist utopia.
From 1984:
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”
A woman I know just announced to the world that she is “queer non-binary” and she said her pronouns would be ‘they and them.’
That’s when I said, “You’re schizophrenic, too?! (It got big laughs.) She then threw a very childish tantrum about intolerant ‘homophobes’ and how she cannot tolerate them. Hmm...
I have thought this, and your expression on the topic mirrors my own thoughts. One side effect of all this is that I have learned to really appreciate a world half filled with real women of many different types. They are really amazing miracles, and that becomes more clear when a mockery of that miracle is forced upon us through every form of mass media and sometimes in public.
I like to do crossword puzzles.
When the clue involves some recent celebrity or movie, I have no idea.
When the clue involves some old-time celebrity or movie, I can’t remember.
:)
I talk the way I talk. They don’t get to control how I talk.
I have never had anyone mention anything about “their” pronouns in real life.
if asked I volunteer my pronouns to the fidiots they are, BITE and ME.
Not my monkeys; not my circus.
Mine are Hee and Haw
;o)))~
It was a question on a form I had to fill out for a medical appointment. I just wrote, “LOL!”
It’s just Gibberish to us
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